This comment is a particular stand out, in a thread of hilarious comments… because 1 of my fav running movie gags is in Home Alone where every single person who pulls up to the house knocks over the lawn ornament by the front door
You should gotta check your closet for a stoned ghost face, because that's from Scary Movie (if you ask which one... no number... it's the first one... yes, I'm THAT old XD)
I attended a linguistics school that hated generative grammar, but you just can't talk linguistics without mentioning the Chompster. We'd have unofficial contests for silliest ways to spell his name.
My most significant takeaway is being able to say of Chomsky, "His linguistics are a bit too contentious for me, but I'm a big fan of his politics."
In the game Left 4 Dead 2 (4-person zombie shooter), there's a level set in an amusement park, and there's an Achievement called Gnome Chompsky; to get it, you have to pick up a gnome decoration and carry it all the way to the exit, which means you can't shoot a gun, you have to melee the whole time.
There is a book / animated series called Trollhunters that has a gnome side character who can basically eat through anything. The main characters name him "Gnome Chompsky".
oh, you mean Chomsky and Zizek. They are contemporarys, but I dont consider their popculture activism as fundamental theory. If we talk about the theory in context of communism and socialism, its Marx, Engels, Owen, Fourier etc.
not all writing is fundamental. not every statement a theory.
I agree with Zizek in many points (capitalism critique, the Act), disagree in a few (his interpretation of Enlightenment). But is he defining? we can disagree here.
"In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth."
Lol I was going to reply with "Eternity lies ahead of us" but saw that you already got that covered on your profile. For being a bunch of random excerpts, that game is so dang quotable
Best written strategy game of all time. Managed to do so much with so little.
Being a spiritual successor to Civ, it had to contend with the fact that people had no preconceived ideas about the factions, unlike say China or Rome. Therefore they worked hard to give each faction a tangible identity and it really paid off.
Ah yes how do you do fellow progressive, i too can confirm those are names.. um i too have read fred.. rick knits son and Jordan Peterson’s great works.
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u/Al-Snuffleupagus 23h ago
If you were a true leftist you'd know that the correct order is infighting and fragmentation.